Twin Tunnels phone town hall is Wednesday

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DENVER, Colorado - Wednesday, the Colorado Department of Transportation will host a telephone town hall meeting at 7 p.m. to allow residents and travelers to learn more about the widening project on eastbound I-70 at Idaho Springs, which includes widening the eastbound bore of the Twin Tunnels.

The town hall meeting will last for one hour and includes a panel of CDOT, construction and elected official representatives.

Eagle County residents can take part by calling 877-229-8493 at 7 p.m. and entering access number 111457. --

Major work is scheduled to begin in April once eastbound I-70 is placed on the frontage road to allow crews to begin the widening of the eastbound I-70 Twin Tunnels bore as well as the rest of I-70 between East Idaho Springs and U.S. 6. To complete the work, blasting of the rock in the eastbound tunnel bore is required and will result in periodic-30-minute traffic stops throughout the summer.-

Kraemer-Obayashi is the contractor/design team for the $106 million project. Eastbound I-70 will reopen to traffic with all three lanes operational by late 2013. -Minor work will continue into next year with the entire project scheduled to be complete in spring 2014. --

For additional project information, visit the project website at www.coloradodot.info/projects/i70twintunnels. Once on the site, you can sign up for email alerts specific to the project. For the daily blasting schedule, call 511, visit www.cotrip.org or download the CDOT smartphone mobile application from your App store.-